mass:werk – Now Go Bang!

Improving one of the oldest 6502 tool sets on the web.

Tales of the early days of the first digital video game.

Atari Heavy Sixer running System V.

Finally, something to agree upon.

Update: Solving the Amherst Mystery.

Yet another PDP-1 riddle, extended mode.

A story of trains, computers, and two images.

Some work for better accessibility.

A quick update on the PET 2001 online emulator.

A few notes on the system update process in Apple’s Big Sur (macOS 11) The joys of Apple’s system update process.

Festive architecture & optimism Lobby of building 2 at General Dynamics Astronautics, San Diego, CA, Dec. 24, 1958.

Better late than never, an old-school e-card… A festive display hack for the PDP-1.

Another view at Minard’s famous flow map, AKA “the greatest infographic of all times” Remapping Minard’s map.

Text to Speech in JS, and a curious bug.

Proudly announcing version 1.1 of the PET 2001 online emulator.

The surprising mechanical store for exchangable fonts of the IBM card punches Punched card typography explained.

Five retro computing related long reads to keep you from getting bored at home Poster: Stay at Home Long Read Edition.

RetroChallenge 2018/04: Writing a proper Atari VCS / 2600 game Accepting the processor clock challenge… There’s a noble challenge, every programmer of self-esteem should obliege to at least once in a lifetime: programming a game for the Atari VCS, also kn…

RetroChallenge 2017/04: Computer Space for the Commodore PET 2001 Accepting the PETSCII challenge… In 2017 I had a new toy and it was the 40th anniversary of the Commodore PET 2001, as well.

RetroChallenge 2016/10: Programming a 60 fps video game for early 1960s hardware.

Implementing a 3D dungeon crawler in MS BASIC for RetroChallenge 2016/01.

A Software Archeological Approach to the First Video Game.

Veering off of our usual topics for a bit of political economy.

Proudly announcing version 1.0 of the PET 2001 online emulator.

A closer look at the logic behind Commodore ASCII, AKA “PETSCII”, and the PET 2001.

Learning from history: How to keep calm while panicking and carry on with face masks Wear a mask or go to jail — California, 1918.

String exploits and a reasonably paced video game in just 10 lines of Commodore BASIC.

Investigations into the memory utilization of Commodore BASIC (PET 2001, VIC-20, C64) The astounding intricacies of Commodore BASIC variables.

How to thoroughly renumber Commodore BASIC programs (PET 2001, VIC-20, C64) The curious wonders of Commodore BASIC renumbering.

Text to Speech in JS, now even better.

Affordable computing by rotating bits at 3700 rpm.

“Today, you are an Astronaut.

Or, how to lift Kurt Gödel’s hat by −0.

mass:werk proudly presents: Running BASIC on a virtual PET 2001 from URL-data.

On the origin of digital video games and the complexity of classification.

Investigations into a lesser known bug in Commodore BASIC abbreviations.

A closer look at the glyphs drawn by the DEC terminals VT100 and VT220.

Images from the outer limits of numeric precision.

Tales of event-handling in JavaScript and some historic oddities of Netscape Navigator 4.

The Terminals Working Group proposed a new Unicode range earlier this month (Jan. 4, 2019) for the purpose of retrocomputing and emulation.

Reverse engineering the command and control structure of a Wordpress attack.

Engineering design according to the Report of the Feilden Committee on Engineering Design, delivered to the government of Harold Macmillan in 1963: Now redo it in cross-stitch. ;-)

Software archeology of an early computer animation (1960s) for the DEC PDP-1 Snowflake (compare the post below) is a small graphics program written for DEC PDP-1 somewhen in the early to mid 1960s.

Portraits have always been a means of self-celebration and display, both of figure and social status, but also a means of reading – not only of physiognomy, but also of the essence of a person.

It may be just the right season to remind of one of the first computer animations, “Snowflake” written in the 1960s for the DEC PDP-1.

Observations on information spread and authenticity of well-known objects on the Internet.

Observations on textual strategy in infographics by the example of the “Greatest Infographic of All Times”.

Tales from the realms of software archeology.

Feast your eyes.